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“As long as justice is postponed we always stand on the verge of these darker nights of social disruption”...so said Martin Luther King Jr. in a speech on March 14, 1968, just three weeks before he was assassinated.

Saturday, 9 December 2017

NEWS

The Guardian

In a statement, CNN said its “initial reporting of the date on an email sent to members of the Trump campaign about WikiLeaks documents, which was confirmed by two sources to CNN, was incorrect. We have updated our story to include the correct date, and present the proper context for the timing of ...

TVNewser

It has been an up and down week for investigative reporting at the TV news networks. Today, it's CNN's turn. The network is facing some criticism for its recent report on the Trump campaign having early access to WikiLeaks' pile of documents. According to the Washington Post, CNN's report is ...

The Onion (satire)

NEW YORK—Growing increasingly worried as news reports indicated that he communicated with the whistleblower organization during his father's presidential campaign, a panicked Donald Trump Jr. reportedly tried to cover up his contact with WikiLeaks Friday by frantically deleting the Mozilla Firefox ...

Chron.com

WASHINGTON (AP) — An email sent to President Donald Trump and his son Donald Trump Jr. before the 2016 election included a decryption key for hacked documents that the website WikiLeaks had made public a day earlier. The email obtained by The Associated Press on Friday was sent by a ...

WEB

Wikileaks

JUMP Radio

Julian Assange is challenging a report by CBS News that details an email reportedly received by Donald Trump Jr. that offered access to hacked information provided through Wikileaks during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. According to CBS and CNN, the email was received by Trump Jr. along ...

David Icke

'CNN published an exclusive Russia story Friday, reporting that an unearthed email indicated that WikiLeaks may have reached out to then-candidate Donald Trump's team during the campaign to offer hacked documents — only for the story to be undermined hours later by the Washington Post.

NewsTalk 93.9 & 910 WSBA

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) – CNN on Friday afternoon corrected an exclusive report that said candidate Donald Trump and his son Donald Trump Jr. had received an email providing a web address and decryption key allowing them to access hacked documents from WikiLeaks before such documents ...

The Gateway Pundit

As previously reported, both CNN and CBS fell for inaccurate reports alleging a WikiLeaks email was sent to Donald Trump Jr. with an encryption key to access future leaks. And Donald Trump Jr. responded… WikiLeakshad actually tweeted a link to the information days before the email reached Trump ...

Committee to Investigate Russia

This story has been corrected to say the date of the email was September 14, 2016, not September 4, 2016. The story also changed the headline and removed a tweet from Donald Trump Jr., who posted a message about WikiLeaks on September 4, 2016. (...) CNN originally reported the email was ...

Zero Hedge

Today, it was CNN's turn to bungle a “bombshell” concerning the Trump campaign and Wikileaks. To wit, Trump's favorite fake news network has issued a correction to a Friday morning “exclusive” claiming that Donald Trump Jr. and other campaign staff received a directive from Wikileaks to download a ...

Suddenlink

Stella's Place

Well, CNN and Wapo got it wrong - AGAIN. AXIOS A September 2016 email sent to senior Trump campaign officials directed them to documents that had already been publicly released by WikiLeaks, per The Washington Post. Initial reporting on the email this morning from CNN said the email was sent ...

MSN.com

Video provided by Wochit. An encryption key to unlock hacked material hosted by WikiLeaks was emailed to Donald Trump and aides two months before the presidential election, it was reported on Friday. It is not clear that the recipients of the email, who included the president, Donald Trump Jr and ...

Kopitiam Bot

(Source: www.theverge.com) Two months before the election, the Trump campaign received a strange email offering access to documents, allegedly from WikiLeaks, according to a report from CNN. The news agency's report raises several questions about the email — it's unclear where the email came ...

Congressman Jerrold Nadler

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, CNN reports that candidate Donald Trump, his son Donald Trump, Jr., and others inside the Trump Organization received an email in September 2016 offering a decryption key and website address for hacked documents—weeks before WikiLeaks began publishing the ...

True Pundit

Multiple reports published Friday threw cold water on a CNN story that said the Trump campaign received advance WikiLeaks information in an email, reporting that the information in the email was already public. “Candidate Donald Trump, his son Donald Trump Jr., and others in the Trump Organization ...

The Washington Post

A 2016 email sent to President Trump and top aides pointed the campaign to hacked documents from the Democratic National Committee that had already been made public by the group WikiLeaks a day earlier. The email — sent the afternoon of Sept. 14, 2016 — noted that “Wikileaks has uploaded ...

Infowars

Perhaps the most jarring error in the CNN report is the date on which Trump Jr. was sent the email. The network reported that a person named Mike Erickson emailed Trump Jr. and others on the Trump campaign on Sept. 4, 2016, with a link to Wikileaks documents as well as a decryption key to access ...